In an interview with Mediaite, Herring explained that the company “wanted to move on” because it hadn’t heard back from O’Reilly and wasn’t going to sit around and wait for him to decide forever.

This could be a pretty disastrous turn for O’Reilly’s career. While OAN might not have as large an audience as Fox News, it would have helped O’Reilly maintain his public following while deciding what to do next.

This particular door being slammed in O’Reilly’s face doesn’t mean that he is finished as a political personality, it will just be a lot harder now.

O’Reilly has also flirted with the idea of starting his own network, but nothing has materialized yet.

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